Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1887-08-21
.,RrASTS AND HORNS" CONIko-
NERSN.
Mr. ,IcDarmott Again Critici,es Rev. Mr.
Atwood.

r.. tlr Editor az q. Register
cr.-Iu a former commandments
my REGISTER, July 81 gave super
abundant proof that the Pope IS not III any
s.psp private citizen OF Rome or subject
If Uumb,yt. Mr.. Atwood rcatlirms the
contrary. but Omiis every SrE0,ance OI
nropf Let the public iudsr Of his honesty
Of purpose. The charges Of ignorance he
l,inrs AGAINST me can hc very easily Ie-
t,.,ri against himself and suhstautia,ed.
Ills attempt to identify the Pope with
the beasts, horns, hobgoblinS, etc, OF
rrorbecy is silly beyond description lie
teIls his hearers that the Apocllyptic beast
Rev. xiii had seven heads and ten horns;
that the Pope Is that seyen-hCaded, ten
horned beast; but that one by one these
heads have been chopped of, until now,
thnuuh still living, he is an acephalOuS
,noustcr. He points out the precise time.
yrs with the inlalllhlr precision Of an IN
spi ed seer, when each head was cnt on.
The chopping on process corresponds,
,br unrrIlag Mr. Atwood assures rs,
IN the several periods OF Papal
history. when, for longer or shorter time
the pope was deprived OF his temporal do
mipions. OF course he * obliged to pass
over many such periods, aS To: instance,
the absence of pOpes from Rome and their
residence at AvignOn IN France for some
SIXTY years, because he must not take more
than seven heads OF the Pope. II he had
had more than seven heads, he could not
n"nst OF Revelation Even AN
sees the lbsurdIty OF
AIT OF Nh Atwood.
N,tru all the assurance OF his inialilhle
authority a. the Interpreter OF those most
Imysterious secrets OF Holy Writ, he asserts
that the fourth head Of the beas was chop
ped OH by General Bcrthier when Plus NJ
was carried away prisoner to France.
Pms Nj Who was Plus NJ, The last
Pope who bore the name OF Plus. was the
iInstrlous predecessor Of Leo NH, and he
WIS Plus the ninth VIII Mr. Atwood al
trnpt ia throw the blame of this stupid
historical bluudcr ON the poor printer
That excuse will not save him; iol If the
typc-se,tcr hlundtrrd how did IT come
that both the EEDI@vEE and the htb"go-
r.,cOntaincd the very same mistake The
schoolboy would indeed be- ignorant
wLU would not at a glance detect - rgTtH-
Gus hluudcr.
Men. Protestant rs well ~ Catholic, Who
red the signs of the times, may well mar
VI ut any one calling himself Christian
minister, chucklng over the success Of the
VIGOROUSLY inddrl ana Christian rev
olutionSts of Europe Can Mr.. Atwood
be ignorant oi the ultimate aims OF these
men, The Central Lodge Of CIrbunarism
in Italy has made thj, solemn, official dec
laration. "Our final purpose is That OF
Vdtairc and the French Revolution the
total aunihihtiOn OF Catholicism and OF the
Christian idea itself The history Of the
p3st ten years prove, how persiSiently they
have lahorrd 60 accomplish this hellish
purpose the uprooting of all Christianity.
When therefore men, uomiually Christians,
publicly applaud such diaholiral work,
they should in all charity be clas~yd among
those for whom our Divine Savior 81 tend
crly PRAYED Oh his cross. Father, forgive
them, for thcy know not what they do. ~
What, wonder, do the Llualy bows "l
the lowest Latin class think ot Mr. At
wood strlnslutiUu orthc word, "NIrtur: -
lie saws itmcaus "Lo,i""' Good gracious,
won, some kind friend prevent ANY fur
thrr,y of such crude ignorance,
l.. II. M,DEINuTr.
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